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Images of Robin Hood
. Ed(S): Potter, Lois; Calhoun, Joshua
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Description for Images of Robin Hood
hardcover. Editor(s): Potter, Lois; Calhoun, Joshua. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, printed music items, colour plates. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 608.
This collection explores the rich literary and visual origins and afterlives of the popular legend. It examines Robin's portrayal as outlaw hero and the significance of his traditional setting in the 'merry greenwood,' both in England and in the Brandywine Valley that became the Sherwood Forest of illustrators Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth. Complemented by thirty black-and-white illustrations and six color plates, the varied essays in this collection should deepen and enrich the study of a figure of seemingly endless variety. Through the analysis of various 'texts'_May games, ballads, broadsides, legal archives, operettas, illustrated children's book, English theater, Chinese outlaw ... Read more
This collection explores the rich literary and visual origins and afterlives of the popular legend. It examines Robin's portrayal as outlaw hero and the significance of his traditional setting in the 'merry greenwood,' both in England and in the Brandywine Valley that became the Sherwood Forest of illustrators Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth. Complemented by thirty black-and-white illustrations and six color plates, the varied essays in this collection should deepen and enrich the study of a figure of seemingly endless variety. Through the analysis of various 'texts'_May games, ballads, broadsides, legal archives, operettas, illustrated children's book, English theater, Chinese outlaw ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490756
SKU
V9781611490756
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Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Potter, Lois; Calhoun, Joshua
Lois Potter was Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Joshua Calhoun is completing a PhD at the University of Delaware.
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